LIVE / WORK
New York City, NY
News
9 Apr 2024 – 30 Jun 2024
Immemory I’m Memory, Keelung Art Museum, Keelung, TW
19 Apr 2024 – 10 Jun 2024
RANDOMIZE Intl. Unstable Media Art Festival, Fuzhong 15, Taipei, TW
18 May 2024 – 2 Sep 2024
Shared Spaces, International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
15 Jun 2024 - 7 Jul 2024
The Interval, Pingtung Art Museum, Pingtung, TW
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Taiwan, WU Chia Yun 吳家昀 is an artist and filmmaker based in New York City. She has received degrees in film directing that made her lean toward the aesthetics of film narration and mise-en-scène. Her work has expanded from film to installation to conceptual art. She has applied cinematic language to experiments with moving images, mixed media, and photography. That way she explores the spirits within the materials themselves that unveil the essence of things and the connection with human states. Her work represents how politics and the outer world affect her as a person. She also makes fiction films to narrate indescribable life stories, discussing freedom, a sense of belonging, and nothingness.
WU’s works have been internationally exhibited at ICA (UK), BilbaoArte Fundazioa (ES), York Art Gallery (UK), Royal Scottish Academy (UK), Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (PT) and more. Recent screenings include Proyector Festival de Videoarte (ES), European Media Art Festival, (DE), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (FR/DE), London Short Film Festival (UK), Festival Les Instants Vidéo (FR) among others. She has participated in artist residencies granted by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CA) and Lithuanian Photographers Association (LT). She is the recipient of the Director’s Fellowship from the International Center of Photography (USA).
Education
Royal College of Art, London, UK
MA Visual Communication
ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, BE
MA Photographie – exchange program
National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, TW
MFA Motion Picture
BFA Motion Picture
BFA Fine Arts – double majored
Artist Residencies / Academic Exchanges
2023 Ambisonics Taiwan-France Exchange Program, Paris, FR
– granted by Bureau Français de Taipei
2022 International Symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography for Artist Residency, Nida, LT
– granted by Lithuanian Photographers Association
2022 Taipei-Québec Exchange Program for Screenwriting Residency, Montréal, CA
– granted by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec & Ciné Tapis Rouge
Screenings
2023 36th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille, FR
2023 30th Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, USA
2023 15th Video Art Miden Festival, Kalamata, GR
2023 40th Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, IT
2023 28th New Jersey International Film Festival, New Brunswick, USA
2022 15th Proyector Festival de Videoarte, Madrid, ES
2022 9th Fine Arts Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
2022 20th Tirana International Film Festival, Tirana, AL
– qualified by Academy Awards & European Film Awards
2022 19th London Short Film Festival, London, UK
– qualified by British Academy Film Awards
2022 11th BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, ES
– exhibited at BilbaoArte Fundazioa
2021 19th International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok, TH
– exhibited at Thai Film Archive (online)
2021 22nd Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berlin, DE
– exhibited at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
2021 22nd Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, FR
– exhibited at Louvre Museum
2021 17th Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata FestiFreak, Buenos Aires, AR
2020 33rd European Media Art Festival, Osnabrükc, DE
2019 12th Proyector Festival de Videoarte, Madrid, ES
2017 2nd New Taipei City Student Film Award, Taipei, TW
2015 37th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Market, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
2015 5th Chinese Visual Festival, London, UK
2014 17th Shanghai International Film Festival, Shanghai, CN
2014 21st Women Make Waves International Film Festival, Taipei, TW
2014 14th Kaohsiung International Film Festival, Kaohsiung, TW
2014 36th Golden Harvest Awards for Outstanding Short Films, Taipei, TW
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Five, Four, Three, Two, Yiri Arts, Taipei, TW
2022 In Desert, Hong Foundation, Taipei, TW
2022 Borderless Place, Amber Museum Gallery, Nida, LT
2022 Taipei-Québec Exchange Program, La Chaufferie, Montréal, CA
2021 Inexhaustible Empty, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, TW
2021 Moldy Walls, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, TW
2021 The Moment of Consciousness, Powen Gallery, Taipei, TW
2020 A Song for Loss, Yiri Arts, Taipei, TW
2019 darkness within darkness, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW
2018 Next Art Tainan Award, Art Tainan, Tainan, TW
2017 In Search of Inexistent Time, Art Taipei, Taipei, TW
Group Exhibitions
2024 A Decade Ago, Yiri Arts, Taipei, TW
2023 Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, TW
2023 EXiM Experimental Video Screening Festival, CCCN, Macau
2023 Fever Genesis, Culture Lab LIC, New York, USA
2023 Experimental Film and Video 2023, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, KR
2023 197th RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
2023 Loops.Expanded, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, PT
2023 Treasure Hill Light Festival, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, TW
2023 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, UK
2022 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York, UK
2021 Biennial International Paper Fibre Art, National Taiwan Craft Institute, Nantou, TW
2020 National Art Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW
2019 Sealed Landscapes, Records of Anomalies, Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, TW
2019 Let us return home, UP Gallery, Hsinchu, TW
2019 Kaohsiung Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, TW
2018 Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, Taoyuan Arts Center, Taoyuan,TW
2018 YES TAIWAN VII, AKI Gallery, Taipei, TW
2018 The Metamorphosis, Asir Art Museum, Tainan, TW
2018 Kaohsiung Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, TW
2018 Original Macao Video Festival, Espaço Video, Macao
2017 PLAY, Vertical Gallery, Hong Kong
2017 Under the Radar, Hangar Art Center, Brussels, BE
2017 Fun Young, Taiwan Art Bank, Taichung, TW
2016 A Piece of Daily, Yiri Arts, Taichung, TW
2016 ShowRCA, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2016 #WRITTNE, Finishing Touch, London, UK
2014 TRINITY, Redtory, Guangzhou, CN
2014 FREEDOM, namGallery, Tokyo, JP
2013 WAALAND, Taiwan Women’s Art Association, Taipei, TW
2012 Poetry & Installation Art, Yo-Chang Art Museum, Taipei, TW
2011 Snapshot Awards, Taiwan Photo Museum, Taipei, TW
Art Fairs
2024 Art Basel (Yiri Arts), Hong Kong
2023 Art Jakarta (Yiri Arts), Jakarta, ID
2022 Art Taipei (Yiri Arts), Taipei, TW
2020 Art Taipei (Yiri Arts), Taipei, TW
2019 Art Taipei (Yiri Arts), Taipei, TW
2019 FLAME Video Art Fair (Yiri Arts), Hong Kong
Awards
2023 Finalist, Taipei Art Awards from Taipei Fine Arts Museum, TW
2023 Director’s Fellowship, International Center of Photography, USA
2023 Ministry of Culture Annual Book Art Competition Award, LT
2023 Longlisted, Aesthetica Art Prize, UK
2022 Longlisted, Aesthetica Art Prize, UK
2022 Third Prize, BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, ES
2022 Nominated, Taishin Arts Award, TW
2020 Finalist, National Art Exhibition, TW
2019 First Prize, Kaohsiung Award from Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, TW
2019 Shortlisted, FOAM Talent Amsterdam, NL
2018 Excellent, Brainstorming Contemporary Arts Awards, TW
2018 Finalist, Taoyuan Contemporary Art Award, TW
2018 Finalist, Kaohsiung Award from Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, TW
2018 Next Art Tainan Award, TW
2017 S-AN Cultural Foundation Award, TW
2017 Ministry of Culture Emerging Artist Award, TW
2015 Ministry of Education Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, TW
2013 Best Prize, Team Ear Music the Verse Experimental Video & Art Award, TW
2011 First Prize, Taiwan Photo Museum Snapshot Awards, TW
Collections
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, TW
Tainan Art Museum, Tainan, TW
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, TW
The European Independent Film Channel, Paris, FR
Artist Book
2022 Borderless Place, published by Lithuanian Photographers Association, Vilnius, LT
selected Press / REVIEW
09/2023 Aesthetica Art Prize: Picturing the Landscape－Aesthetica Magazine
05/2022 From island to island: interview with Taiwanese artist Chia-Yun Wu－7md
05/2015 Chiayun Wu’s debut is a perceptive, low key exploration into mortality…－Kelan Headley
Lectures / Workshops
2022 NIDA. Meeting Photography, Nida, LT
2021 Photo Talks 2021 S2, Lightbox, Taipei, TW
2021 Contemporary Expanded Cinema, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, TW
2020 Creative Practice in Fluid VR, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, TW
2018 The Series Lectures of Earth Song, Yiri Class, Taipei, TW
2015 A Conversation with Taiwan Filmmakers, King’s College, London, UK